Introduction

Motivation: Why data mining?

What is data mining?

Data Mining: On what kind of data?

Data mining functionality

Are all the patterns interesting?

Classification of data mining systems

Major issues in data mining

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 Motivation: “Necessity is the Mother of
Invention”

 Data explosion problem

 Automated data collection tools and mature database technology

lead to tremendous amounts of data stored in databases, data

warehouses and other information repositories
 We are drowning in data, but starving for knowledge!

 Solution: Data warehousing and data mining

 Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing

 Extraction of interesting knowledge (rules, regularities, patterns,

constraints) from data in large databases

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 Evolution of Database Technology

1960s:
 Data collection, database creation, IMS and network DBMS
1970s:
 Relational data model, relational DBMS implementation
1980s:
 RDBMS, advanced data models (extended-relational, OO,
deductive, etc.) and application-oriented DBMS (spatial, scientific,
engineering, etc.)
1990s—2000s:
 Data mining and data warehousing, multimedia databases, and
Web databases

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 What Is Data Mining?

Data mining (knowledge discovery in databases):

 Extraction of interesting (non-trivial, implicit, previously

unknown and potentially useful) information or patterns
from data in large databases
Alternative names and their “inside stories”:
 Data mining: a misnomer?
 Knowledge discovery(mining) in databases (KDD),
knowledge extraction, data/pattern analysis, data
archeology, data dredging, information harvesting, business
intelligence, etc.
What is not data mining?
 (Deductive) query processing.
 Expert systems or small ML/statistical programs

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 Why Data Mining? — Potential
Applications

 Database analysis and decision support

 Market analysis and management

 target marketing, customer relation management, market

basket analysis, cross selling, market segmentation
 Risk analysis and management

 Forecasting, customer retention, quality control, competitive

analysis
 Fraud detection and management

 Other Applications
 Text mining (news group, email, documents) and Web analysis.
 Intelligent query answering

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 Market Analysis and Management (1)

Where are the data sources for analysis?

 Credit card transactions, loyalty cards, discount coupons, customer
complaint calls, plus (public) lifestyle studies
Target marketing
 Find clusters of “model” customers who share the same
characteristics: interest, income level, spending habits, etc.
Determine customer purchasing patterns over time
 Conversion of single to a joint bank account: marriage, etc.
Cross-market analysis
 Associations/co-relations between product sales
 Prediction based on the association information

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 Market Analysis and Management (2)

Customer profiling
 data mining can tell you what types of customers buy what
products (clustering or classification)
Identifying customer requirements
 identifying the best products for different customers
 use prediction to find what factors will attract new customers

Provides summary information

 various multidimensional summary reports
 statistical summary information (data central tendency and
variation)
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Corporate Analysis and Risk Management

Finance planning and asset evaluation

 cash flow analysis and prediction
 contingent claim analysis to evaluate assets
 cross-sectional and time series analysis (financial-ratio, trend
analysis, etc.)
Resource planning:
 summarize and compare the resources and spending
Competition:
 monitor competitors and market directions
 group customers into classes and a class-based pricing procedure
 set pricing strategy in a highly competitive market

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 Fraud Detection and Management (1)

Applications
 widely used in health care, retail, credit card services,
telecommunications (phone card fraud), etc.
Approach
 use historical data to build models of fraudulent behavior and use
data mining to help identify similar instances
Examples
 auto insurance: detect a group of people who stage accidents to
collect on insurance
 money laundering: detect suspicious money transactions (US
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)
 medical insurance: detect professional patients and ring of doctors
and ring of references
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 Fraud Detection and Management (2)

Detecting inappropriate medical treatment

 Australian Health Insurance Commission identifies that in many
cases blanket screening tests were requested (save Australian
$1m/yr).
Detecting telephone fraud
 Telephone call model: destination of the call, duration, time of day
or week. Analyze patterns that deviate from an expected norm.
 British Telecom identified discrete groups of callers with frequent
intra-group calls, especially mobile phones, and broke a
multimillion dollar fraud.
Retail
 Analysts estimate that 38% of retail shrink is due to dishonest
employees.

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 Other Applications

Sports
 IBM Advanced Scout analyzed NBA game statistics (shots
blocked, assists, and fouls) to gain competitive advantage for
New York Knicks and Miami Heat
Astronomy
 JPL and the Palomar Observatory discovered 22 quasars with the
help of data mining
Internet Web Surf-Aid
 IBM Surf-Aid applies data mining algorithms to Web access logs
for market-related pages to discover customer preference and
behavior pages, analyzing effectiveness of Web marketing,
improving Web site organization, etc.
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 Data Mining: A KDD Process

Pattern Evaluation
 Data mining: the core of
knowledge discovery process.
Data Mining

Task-relevant Data

Data Selection
Warehouse
Data Cleaning

Data Integration

Databases
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 Steps of a KDD Process

 Learning the application domain:

 relevant prior knowledge and goals of application
 Creating a target data set: data selection
 Data cleaning and preprocessing: (may take 60% of effort!)
 Data reduction and transformation:
 Find useful features, dimensionality/variable reduction, invariant
representation.
 Choosing functions of data mining
 summarization, classification, regression, association, clustering.
 Choosing the mining algorithm(s)
 Data mining: search for patterns of interest
 Pattern evaluation and knowledge presentation
 visualization, transformation, removing redundant patterns, etc.
 Use of discovered knowledge
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Data Mining and Business
Intelligence
Increasing potential
to support
business decisions End User
Making
Decisions

Data Presentation Business

Analyst
Visualization Techniques
Data Mining Data
Information Discovery Analyst

Data Exploration
Statistical Analysis, Querying and Reporting
Data Warehouses / Data Marts
OLAP, MDA DBA
Data Sources
Paper, Files, Information Providers, Database Systems, OLTP
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 Architecture of a Typical Data
Mining System
Graphical user interface

Pattern evaluation

Data mining engine

Knowledge-base
Database or data
warehouse server
Data cleaning & data integration Filtering

Data
Databases Warehouse

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 Data Mining: On What Kind of Data?

Relational databases
Data warehouses
Transactional databases
Advanced DB and information repositories
Object-oriented and object-relational databases
Spatial databases
Time-series data and temporal data
Text databases and multimedia databases
Heterogeneous and legacy databases
WWW
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Object-Relational Databases

Object-relational databases are constructed based on

an object-relational data model.
Special constructs for relational query languages are
included to manage the added data types.
The object-relational model extends the basic
relational data model by adding the power to handle
complex data types, class hierarchies, and object
inheritance.
Object-relational databases are becoming
increasingly popular in industry and applications.
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Spatial Databases
Spatial databases contain spatial-related information.
Such databases include geographic databases (map),
VLSI chip design databases, and medical and satellite
image databases.
Geographic databases have a number of applications,
ranging from forestry and ecology planning, to
providing public service information regarding the
location of telephone and electric cables, pipes and
sewage systems.
In addition, geographic databases are used in vehicle
navigation and dispatching systems.

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Temporal & Time-Series Databases
Temporal databases and time-series databases both
store time-related data. A temporal database usually
stores relational data that includes time-related
attributes.
These attributes may involve several timestamps,
each having different semantics.
A time-series database stores sequences of values that
change with time, such as data collected regarding
the stock exchange.
Stock exchange data can be mined to uncover trends
that could help you plan investment strategies.
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Heterogenous Databases and Legacy Databases
A legacy database is a group of heterogeneous
databases that combines different kinds of data
systems, such as relational or object-oriented
databases, hierarchical databases, network databases,
spreadsheets, multimedia databases, or file systems.
Information exchange across such databases is
difficult since one needs to work out precise
transformation rules from one representation to
another, considering diverse semantics.

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 Data Mining Functionalities (1)

Concept description: Characterization and

discrimination
Generalize, summarize, and contrast data
characteristics, e.g., dry vs. wet regions
Association (correlation and causality)
Multi-dimensional vs. single-dimensional association
age(X, “20..29”) ^ income(X, “20..29K”)  buys(X, “PC”)
[support = 2%, confidence = 60%]
contains(T, “computer”)  contains(x, “software”) [1%,
75%]
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 Data Mining Functionalities (2)
Classification and Prediction
 Finding models (functions) that describe and distinguish classes or
concepts for future prediction
 E.g., classify countries based on climate, or classify cars based on
gas mileage
 Presentation: decision-tree, classification rule, neural network
 Prediction: Predict some unknown or missing numerical values

Cluster analysis
 Class label is unknown: Group data to form new classes, e.g.,
cluster houses to find distribution patterns
 Clustering based on the principle: maximizing the intra-class
similarity and minimizing the interclass similarity
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 Data Mining Functionalities (3)

Outlier analysis
 Outlier: a data object that does not comply with the general behavior of

the data
 It can be considered as noise or exception but is quite useful in fraud

detection, rare events analysis

Trend and evolution analysis

 Trend and deviation: regression analysis

 Sequential pattern mining, periodicity analysis

 Similarity-based analysis

Other pattern-directed or statistical analyses

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 Are All the “Discovered” Patterns
Interesting?
 A data mining system/query may generate thousands of patterns, not
all of them are interesting.
 Suggested approach: Human-centered, query-based, focused mining

 Interestingness measures: A pattern is interesting if it is easily

understood by humans, valid on new or test data with some degree of
certainty, potentially useful, novel, or validates some hypothesis that
a user seeks to confirm
 Objective vs. subjective interestingness measures:
 Objective: based on statistics and structures of patterns, e.g., support,
confidence, etc.
 Subjective: based on user’s belief in the data, e.g., unexpectedness,
novelty, actionability, etc.
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 Can We Find All and Only Interesting Patterns?

Find all the interesting patterns: Completeness

 Can a data mining system find all the interesting patterns?
 Association vs. classification vs. clustering

Search for only interesting patterns: Optimization

 Can a data mining system find only the interesting patterns?
 Approaches
 First general all the patterns and then filter out the
uninteresting ones.
 Generate only the interesting patterns—mining query
optimization
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 Data Mining: Confluence of Multiple
Disciplines
Database
Statistics
Technology

Machine
Learning
Data Mining Visualization

Information Other
Science Disciplines

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 Data Mining: Classification Schemes

General functionality
Descriptive data mining

Predictive data mining

Different views, different classifications

Kinds of databases to be mined

Kinds of knowledge to be discovered

Kinds of techniques utilized

Kinds of applications adapted

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 A Multi-Dimensional View of Data
Mining Classification
 Databases to be mined
 Relational, transactional, object-oriented, object-relational, active,
spatial, time-series, text, multi-media, heterogeneous, legacy,
WWW, etc.
 Knowledge to be mined
 Characterization, discrimination, association, classification,
clustering, trend, deviation and outlier analysis, etc.
 Multiple/integrated functions and mining at multiple levels
 Techniques utilized
 Database-oriented, data warehouse (OLAP), machine learning,
statistics, visualization, neural network, etc.
 Applications adapted
 Retail, telecommunication, banking, fraud analysis, DNA mining, stock
market analysis, Web mining, Weblog analysis, etc.

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 OLAP Mining: An Integration of Data Mining
and Data Warehousing
Data mining systems, DBMS, Data warehouse
systems coupling
 No coupling, loose-coupling, semi-tight-coupling, tight-coupling

On-line analytical mining data

 integration of mining and OLAP technologies

Interactive mining multi-level knowledge

 Necessity of mining knowledge and patterns at different levels of
abstraction by drilling/rolling, pivoting, slicing/dicing, etc.
Integration of multiple mining functions
 Characterized classification, first clustering and then association

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 An OLAM Architecture
Mining query Mining result Layer4
User Interface
User GUI API
Layer3
OLAM OLAP
Engine Engine OLAP/OLAM

Data Cube API

Layer2
MDDB
MDDB
Meta
Data
Filtering&Integration Database API Filtering
Layer1
Data cleaning Data
Databases Data
Data integration Warehouse Repository
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 Major Issues in Data Mining (1)

Mining methodology and user interaction

 Mining different kinds of knowledge in databases
 Interactive mining of knowledge at multiple levels of abstraction
 Incorporation of background knowledge
 Data mining query languages and ad-hoc data mining
 Expression and visualization of data mining results
 Handling noise and incomplete data
 Pattern evaluation: the interestingness problem

Performance and scalability

 Efficiency and scalability of data mining algorithms
 Parallel, distributed and incremental mining methods
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 Major Issues in Data Mining (2)

Issues relating to the diversity of data types

 Handling relational and complex types of data
 Mining information from heterogeneous databases and global
information systems (WWW)
Issues related to applications and social impacts
 Application of discovered knowledge
Domain-specific data mining tools
 Intelligent query answering

 Process control and decision making

 Integration of the discovered knowledge with existing knowledge: A

knowledge fusion problem
 Protection of data security, integrity, and privacy
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 Summary
 Data mining: discovering interesting patterns from large amounts of
data
 A natural evolution of database technology, in great demand, with wide
applications
 A KDD process includes data cleaning, data integration, data selection,
transformation, data mining, pattern evaluation, and knowledge
presentation
 Mining can be performed in a variety of information repositories
 Data mining functionalities: characterization, discrimination,
association, classification, clustering, outlier and trend analysis, etc.
 Classification of data mining systems
 Major issues in data mining

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